KDE fans say Plasma will give Ubuntu developers ‘finer-grained control’ over the overall desktop experience than GNOME, and cite Canonical’s previous effort working with Qt on Unity 8 and Ubuntu Phone as a positive reason to embrace the DE.

“Moreover, the KDE community seems like a community more open to symbiotic collaboration than the GNOME community,” the petition adds.

At the time of writing, the change.org petition has attracted just 19 signatures in the 4 days it has been running.

One of those who has signed the petition agrees with its aim, commenting that “…with KDE ubuntu will be more useful than Gnome Shell. KDE is a good platform as alternative of Unity.”,